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It is;
 A 2 year programme, DCSF funded, hosted
by L.G.A., supported by IDeA.
 Focussing on ‘3-13’ population.
 Having 5 themes (key lines of enquiry).
 Identifying critical building blocks – the
‘must-do’s’ for improving outcomes for
vulnerable groups and ‘narrowing the gap’.
Programme hopes to:
Build on the
‘family’ of local
Government
‘Keep the faith’ in
Every Child
Matters
Identify ‘what’s working’ and ‘what
still needs to be done’ in improving
outcomes for vulnerable groups
(against context of improving
outcomes for all).
Share
‘effective’
practice
Try to answer fundamental question?
What is it, if applied universally and
pursued relentlessly, would make a
significant impact on the outcomes
of vulnerable groups of children
and young people?
Simple
truths
Across
5 outcomes
Rooted in evidence –
tested in localities
5 themes (key lines of enquiry)
 How to create and sustain the right links
between schools, children’s centres and
Children’s Services.
 How to engage and support parents and
carers in helping their children to succeed.
 How to use the new systems and process
brought into being by Every Child Matters
to orientate services more towards
prevention and early intervention.
methodology
methodology
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CHIMP methodology
Appreciative inquiry
Turning the curve informed
Sector led improvement
Backed by evidence
 How to strengthen and align local leadership
and governance arrangements - both
professional and political.
 How to strengthen systems for developing
local leaders to deliver improved services
based on the understanding of what works.
What do we mean by
‘narrowing the gap’?
The difference / deficit between
outcomes for a specific group and
the outcomes for the whole range
of children and young people, of
which the group forms a part
Includes:
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Children from poorer socio-economic groups (including
white ‘working class’ boys)
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Children in Care
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Children with disabilities
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Children with SEN
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Children excluded from school
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Children with poor records of attendance at school
Children from different ethnic minority backgrounds
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Young Offenders
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Young Carers
Children at risk from significant harm
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Children living with ‘vulnerable’ adults
NFER Review of
Literature and Research
Overview and Analysis of Data
Data from longitudinal
research studies
Secondary analysis
of large datasets
Data from
other surveys
Publicly accessible
data
Initial templates completed
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What seems to make the difference.
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First 3 themes.
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Drawn from a trawl of evidence and use of
‘experts’.
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Against 5 ECM outcomes and 5 layers of ECM
‘onion’ (Inter-Agency Governance, Strategy,
Processes and Front-line Delivery)
What Children’s Centres and Early Years Setting can do
Integrated
Frontline
Delivery
What needs to be in place between schools and other services
Integrated
Integrated
Frontline
Processes
Delivery
Integrated
Integrated
Frontline
Integrated
Strategy
Delivery
Processes
Integrated
Integrated
Integrated
Integrated
Frontline
Governance
Processes
Strategy
Delivery
What schools can do
Effective Practice in engaging parents and carers
Shifting towards early intervention and prevention
All Children
Integrated
Integrated
Integrated
(Universal Services)
Integrated
Strategy
Governance
Processes
Frontline
Vulnerable Children with
additional needs
(Targeted Services)
Delivery
Integrated
All Children
Integrated
Governance (Universal Services)
Strategy
All Children
Integrated
(Universal
Services)
Processes
Integrated
Governance
Integrated
Strategy
Children with complex,
Children in need of care
multiple needs
or protection/
(Intensive Targeted/
acute needs
Specialist Services)
(Specialist Services)
Vulnerable Children with
Children with complex,
Children in need of care
additional needs
multiple needs
or protection/
(Targeted Services)
(Intensive Targeted/
acute needs
Vulnerable Children with
Children
with
complex,
Children
in need
of care
Specialist
Services)
(Specialist
Services)
additional needs
multiple needs
or protection/
(Targeted Services)
(Intensive Targeted/
acute needs
Specialist Services)
(Specialist Services)
All Children
(Universal Services)
Vulnerable Children with
additional needs
(Targeted Services)
Children with complex,
multiple needs
(Intensive Targeted/
Specialist Services)
Children in need of care
or protection/
acute needs
(Specialist Services)
Integrated
Governance
All Children
(Universal Services)
Vulnerable Children
with additional needs
(Targeted Services)
Children with complex,
multiple needs
(Intensive Targeted/
Specialist Services)
Children in need of
care or protection/
acute needs
(Specialist Services)
Preconditions and building blocks
• A set of preconditions for each theme
• Supported by a series of building
blocks – taken from evidence and
experts and drawn together
• Being field tested by more than 96
LA’s
• Will be amended in light of testing
• Final report also informed by other
activities
Our conclusions so far:
Top 10 Golden Threads
You can do it! (Expect the best)
- creating a culture of high aspirations
- and giving children and parents
access to a trusted (dependable) adult
Together with parents
- working in real partnership with
parents and families and building on
their strengths
- ‘doing with, not doing unto’
Through the eyes of the child
- making all services more child and family
focussed, with adult services more
sensitive to their clients as parents and
alert to the needs of children
- ‘Think Family’
Holding onto the baton
- ensuring as much stability and continuity,
as possible, in relationships between
trusted adults, with children and parents
- managing those transitions that are
unavoidable with care
‘Learning to learn’
- making the building of children’s resilience
a major policy objective
- configuring education so that it benefits the
most vulnerable or disadvantaged,
encouraging their participation and giving
them lots of supplementary and ‘catch-up’
support
‘Cornflakes to Canoeing’
- taking active steps to make extended
services available to disadvantaged
children within, and beyond, the school
Unite to succeed – ‘sanity not vanity’
- deepening the integration of services,
systems and processes
‘Shape up and keep fit’
- re-shaping the workforce and
ensuring it is appropriately trained,
supported and celebrated!
‘Prove it’ – making change happen
- right performance management systems in place
nationally/locally; that encourages focus on
improving outcomes of vulnerable groups in
particular – shared approaches to this across
services, including Health
From good to great – ‘passion with purpose’
- having transformational leadership in place, political
and professional (local and national)
- a clear vision communicated well. Planning and
processes to back it up and deliver results, including
the use of ‘Outcomes Based Accountability’.
Next steps
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Field work – 9 regional seminars
Further research – NFER
Call for evidence – 17th April
Communities of interest signposting
service
• Final Report - Digest of effective
practice – many uses
• Year 2 – last two themes
Read more
• LGA website – www.lga.gov.uk
• Click on our work
• Click on children and young people
• Click on narrowing the gap
OR for participating LA’s a discussion
forum on
• www.communities.idea.gov.uk